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What is funny is that the H-1B "scheme" surpassed all expectations by selling the "American Dream" so well to the rest-of-the-world that they all actually lost due to "brain drain". It was a brilliant long-term strategy.

And yet you have people refusing to face the facts and see the data that the US has-been and is the clear winner in all this.

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Yea, the United States is the original Meta but instead of having to pay a ton and recruit the best and the brightest, they just came to us. Imagine how much more powerful China and India would be if we didn’t get so many of their smart people.

a lot of international athletes come to the usa on athletic scholarships. Universities are also a gateway for about a million students a year. And then there are about a 100 million tourists a year who can head to a sanctuary city… And a lot of labor just walks over also via a daily limit upto 15k people per day depending on wage inflation. It’s not so much a drain as a centrifuge that concentrates the willing and able from every category.

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